Poetry

A “skinny black girl, descended from slaves and raised by a single mother” wowed the nation on Inauguration Day with her poem “The Hill We Climb.” After President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris were sworn in on the steps of the U.S. Capitol Wednesday, 22-year-old Amanda Gorman, the country’s first Youth Poet Laureate, became the youngest person to read a poem at an inaugural ceremony.

Smith says she started writing Keep Moving as her marriage was ending. It began as a series of affirmations she wrote for herself on Twitter; she found that the posts were helping other people too.

Governor Mike DeWine has picked Kari Gunter-Seymour to be Ohio’s new poet laureate. In the middle of a pandemic and nationwide protests, Kari Gunter...

Saeed Jones is used to being away from home.“In 2012, I circled the globe by myself in 8 months. I’ve lived all over the country and I think I just know…

An event this weekend celebrates the more than 100,000 sub-saharan Africans that live in Columbus. The Columbus African Festival will feature food,…

It’s one of those buildings whose walls you wish could talk – an old house with wide windows looking out over a brick facade sturdy as the hills and a new…

What would happen if you were to pair six poets with six composers and tell them to create new poems set to music?Columbus will get the answer to that…

April is the most poetic month, and we're celebrating by asking poets Hanif Abdurraqib, Yanyi, and Franny Choi to talk about what inspires them to write, and how poetry helps express identity.

Poet and author Stephen Kuusisto has been legally blind since birth. He was raised to act sighted growing up. And that worked fine until he was 38 and…

Two poets and a composer walk into a radio studio. Nope, not the setup for a silly joke — but instead for an intriguing conversation among local artists…